Big differences between hygrometers

[whitedog]

Hi everyone!
I need advice. I have two analog and two digital hygrometer. Analog shows the ten percent more than digital. When I tested them in a bag with salt, showed almost exactly the analog hygrometer. Is it possibl, that much more expensive and higher quality digital hygrometer showed poorly?
And one more question - can I use cedar wood from the pack on the distribution of cigars in humidore? Can this harm anything?
Thanks for your answers!

I am so sorry! Twice I have published the same. Do you know how this can be deleted?

[badwhale]

Hi everyone!
I need advice. I have two analog and two digital hygrometer. Analog shows the ten percent more than digital. When I tested them in a bag with salt, showed almost exactly the analog hygrometer. Is it possibl, that much more expensive and higher quality digital hygrometer showed poorly?
And one more question - can I use cedar wood from the pack on the distribution of cigars in humidore? Can this harm anything?
Thanks for your answers!

I am so sorry! Twice I have published the same. Do you know how this can be deleted?

I doubt the spanish cedar used in boxes, I presume, will harm anything.
Back to the hydrometers, nothing surpises me in this day and age of manufacturing.


About the double posting, nothing gets deleted. Hopefully, you won't get a newbie ass peelin' (like we all do)

Will

[Silencei2]

From my experience I haven't seen a huge difference in hygrometers when it comes to expensive and inexpensive ones. The one that I liked the most is the Diamond Crown one. Though the Diamond Crown was the most expensive it was spot on the correct humidity straight from the box. I picked up one from Heartfelt and it had a pretty bad reading, something like 15-20% off. I think the Heartfelt was ~$10. I picked up another small one that is an adjustable puck and off the bat it was +5% but its adjustable so I corrected it accordingly. This one ran I think ~$10

As far as analog hygrometers I have never seen one that is accurate. So I usually stick with digital ones as much as possible.

As far as the cedar goes, the sheets that come from boxes are safe to use in humidors. You can also use the sheets they wrap around certain cigars. The sheets are good for separating cigars from each other and adding some material to retain a little humidity in humidors.

[bigwhiteash]

I use a Western Caliber digital, 100% accurate right out of the box with a Boveda calibration kit. I've never even owned an analog hygro.

Pitch the analog, do a precice calibration on the digital, buy yourself some humididy beads, sleep well at night!

I always save the cedar sheets, I tuck them around the edges in my coolers. It's really not necessary with all the boxes in there, but I do it anyway.

[Eville]

My humidor came with an analog adhesived to the spot on the lid. It seems to only be about 10% low. Im considering just smashing it out and getting a digital to put in its spot, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Wicked96SS]

I got a hygrometer with the humidor, and other than being very nice to look at, I don't think it does much of anything. I did the salt "calibration" (it has adjustment) and the needle never got higher than 40%, so I set that to 75%, and now it never moves...

I did some reading, and settled on the Western Caliber III Digital Hygrometer. The instructions say that it is calibrated from the factory, and that you were not to do the "salt" calibration. There doesn't seem to be any adjustments on it at all. I did set it in my son's room with a high end humidifier, and it read the same as the humidifier and the hygrometer across the room (son has a clock with a temp / humidity gauge on it).

I keep the analog one in the humidifier, 'cause it looks good... but I also have the digital one.

Currently, after adding the Heartfelt bead tubes (70%), the humidity is up to 63%... seems to increase about 1% a day since i added it (4 days ago).